From: Douglas Eleveld <D DOT J DOT Eleveld AT anest DOT azg DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: Commercial Games
Date: 17 Apr 1997 12:03:24 GMT
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I think more likely why Quake was written with DJGPP is that

..Big guess here...

Quake was initially developed on an high end UNIX platform, and then 
basically ported to DOS with some specific DOS and IBM x86 optimizations. 
 DJGPP makes the transition easier from UNIX to DOS and has pretty good 
optimization stuff.

Doug Eleveld